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Bob
~I took some team pictures 120+ kids
~i was shooting jpeg at the time
~began shooting the swim meet and remembered i needed to be shooting in raw.
~ went to my menu and changed from jpeg to raw format
The jPeg images are gone
Completely!!
~Attempted several recovery processes and cannot find them!
~any help would be greatly appreciated
~is this commonplace to happen?
I had no clue!!

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